If you like any of these aspects of the site, I’d be so grateful if you’d link to them or post them on sites such as Digg. I use a free WordPress template that doesn’t allow me to show widgets for Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and similar sites, and I’ve compiled the list partly for that reason. A thousand thanks to all the visitors who have put One-Minute Book Reviews on those sites regardless.

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It’s coming soon to this site. On the first day of each month, beginning June 1, One-Minute Book Reviews will provide an space where you can recommend any book you like or vent about one you didn’t like. The book doesn’t have to be new or to have been reviewed on this site. You may leave comments about “your” book on the first day of the month or any other in the month.

I’ll get the discussion started by adding a few comments on a book that I’ve reviewed recently on this site that made an especially strong impression for good or ill. Then you can jump in with comments on that book or any other: new or old, children’s or adult, mass-market or scholarly.

May 18, 2008

Starting this week, reviews on this site will have a new feature in the extra material at the end — this section will include the titles of several or more sample chapters if a book has chapters that are titled instead of just numbered. The extra material currently includes such things as the best and worst lines in a book and the name of its editor. The titles will give a fuller sense of what’s in books without adding substantially to the length of reviews. They will also make it easier to find books through keyword searches.

Another reason for the change: Like most journalists, I believe strongly in the principle of: Never hang people with your words when you can let them hang themselves with their own. Like the best and worst lines from books that appear regularly on this site, the chapter titles are a way of handing authors a little rope.